Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.

Bruce Springsteen

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: January 5, 1973
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000024ZT
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,137 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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23 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bruce's Debut, September 6, 2000

By	Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Greetings From Asbury Park served notice that there was a new musical force on the scene. On his debut, Bruce showed he was the best songwriter to come along since Bob Dylan. The album kicks off with the musical tounge twister "Blinded By The Light" that showed Bruce wasn't a typical singer-songwriter. The song has a funky riff and is replete with horns. "Spirit In The Night" introduced the E Street sound and is a precursor to the character oriented songs that would appear later on Born To Run & Wild. "Does This Bus Stop at 82nd St?" is fun and "For You" is a rare rock song about suicide. "Growin' Up" & It's So Hard To Be A Saint In The City" show early signs of Bruce's "Tramp" persona. "Lost In The Flood" is the great forgotten Bruce song and is as good a song as he has ever recorded. While Greetings is uneven at points ("Mary, Queen of Arkansas' & "The Angel"), it shows an artist who had a very original sound and huge potential. It is great to throw it in the cd player and hear a young, raw and hungry Bruce Springsteen and listen to where it all started.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Springsteen Wild , Young , & Raw!, December 3, 1999

By	Michael R. Ciampi (Island Park, NY) - See all my reviews

We all know Born to Run and The River and these are great albums. But if you love Bruce, this is the one you must have! It was his first studio album and the best he ever put out. The lyrics in these songs brings you through his painful, drug fenzied, lonely, and sexy moments from his early life. For You is probaly his best and most underrated tune. It will give you goosebumps when he screams out "and who am I to ask you to lick my sores..." Spirit in the Night and Blinded by the Light are the best known hits from this record. Growing Up is the rebel's anthem and The Flood will rip your heart out. So if you are a Bruce fan you must add this to your collection. But understand, this is not Born in the USA or Tunnel of LoveIt is wild, young, and raw!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What is everyone talking about?, November 9, 2001

By	Jessica L (California) - See all my reviews

I am a brand new, 19-year-old Bruce fan. I have just finished reading the rest of the reviews and I am confused. A good friend of mine gave me two of Bruce's cd's to start off with: "Greetings..." and "The Wild..." I'd never heard Bruce before, and I was completely astonished when I heard it. Bruce Springsteen is absolutely incredible. I listened to it nonstop for a month, and easily picked out what I considered to be the best. On "Greetings", two of my favorites were "Mary, Queen of Arkansas" and "The Angel", second only to "Lost in the Flood." I don't understand why all the reviews seem to cast those as the weakest points of the album. What struck me about Bruce was his compassion, intensity, and the forcefulness of his poetic, melancholic yet youthful sincerity. I find those qualities most in the songs that everyone else finds lacking. I am now at the complete mercy of Bruce's romantic, expressive genius and I will faithfully stick by that side of him. I hope I'm not the only one who appreciates these masterpieces.